Wednesday, September 14, 2011

160 million year fossil...

A five-year-old girl in Britain has found a massive 160 million-year-old fossil while digging with her plastic beach spade. Emily Baldry found the pre-historic specimen at Cotswold Water Park in Gloucestershire, Daily Express reported on Friday. She was digging when her plastic spade struck something hard.

Her father Jon and palaeontologist Neville Hollingworth helped Emily dig it out and were left amazed to find a rare fossil. It was of a mollusc that lived in the oceans in the Jurassic period. "She (Emily) is a very inquisitive little girl and got very excited about going on a proper dig. To find something like this was very special," Jon was quoted as saying. Palaeontologist Hollingworth said: "I have been looking for these for around 25 years and only found three."


Fosil 160 Juta Tahun


TAMAN AIR COTSWOLD, Britain - Seorang budak berusia lima tahun, Emily Baldry menemui fosil cangkerang berusia lebih 160 juta tahun selepas menggali tanah dengan menggunakan sebatang penyodok yang selalu digunakan untuk membina istana pasir, lapor sebuah akhbar semalam.

Emily menemui fosil seberat 57 kilogram itu yang jarang didapati itu di kawasan Taman Air Cotswold di sini dengan bantuan bapanya Jon, 40, pada Mac tahun lalu.

Fosil lengkap berdiameter hampir 40.6 sentimeter itu berasal daripada haiwan moluska yang mempunyai cangkerang yang hidup di lautan.


Ia kini disimpan di kediaman keluarga berkenaan di sini setelah ia dipamerkan kepada umum. Cangkerang itu diberi nama Spike oleh Emily.

Selepas cangkerang itu ditemui, dia menyerahkannya kepada seorang ahli geologi, Neville Hollingworth untuk dibersihkan.

Emily yang kini berusia enam tahun berasa gembira apabila melihat cangkerang itu yang kelihatan berkilat semasa ia dipamerkan di Pusat Penerangan Gateway dekat Cirencester pada Ahad lalu.

Menurut bapa Emily, cangkerang itu akan dibawa pulang ke rumah selepas tempoh ia dipamerkan.

Sumber artikel : Kosmo Online - Dunia

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